Run Tuesday afternoon local time, the Melbourne Cup post time for American viewers is Monday evening at 11 p.m. (EST). You can watch and wager at TwinSpires.com.
Articles by Author: Vance Hanson
Expert picks for Breeders’ Cup Saturday by horse racing analyst Vance Hanson.
With a relatively low takeout and bet minimum on Pick 5s, Vance Hanson will invest in those over the two days. Here’s how he will be playing Friday’s ticket.
Just getting a Breeders’ Cup longshot in the money can be as good as a win. Inside are some of the longer-priced runners that looked intriguing as win propositions or vertical exotics boosters.
We’ve known for some time who most of the betting favorites will be over the two-day fixture, though some are a bit more challenging to pin down.
Santa Anita will still have plenty of implications with respect to Eclipse Awards for both the three-year-old male and older dirt male categories.
It often takes a career-best effort to win a Breeders’ Cup race, and many over the years have been unable to duplicate it.
Grass racing continues to be an increasingly popular and crucial segment of the American racing landscape. One sign of this has been the explosion in the number of turf stakes, graded and…
An All-Stakes 50-cent Pick 5 at Kentucky Downs on Saturday with a 14% takeout? Why, yes, please. Here’s a look at the sequence. Race 6 — $500,000 Kentucky Downs Juvenile Turf Sprint…
Unfortunately, there is no all-graded stakes Pick 4 on the latter half of Saturday’s Del Mar program. Instead, we’ll concentrate on the Pick 3 that runs from the Torrey Pines (G3) through…
Saturday’s $150,000 guaranteed All-Stakes Pick 5 at Arlington includes all four graded turf stakes, but the sequence starts with $75,000 Bruce D. Memorial for three-year-olds at one mile on Polytrack. While the…
A multi-day, all-stakes Pick 6, a concept spawned on Kentucky Derby weekend this past spring, makes another appearance on Saturday and Sunday at Saratoga. With a 15% takeout, 20-cent minimum, and a…